The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

In response, Conant ( 1970 ) produced his so-called " Good Regulator theorem " stating that " every Good Regulator of a System Must be a Model of that System ".

Conant was one of the first to realise that while this relationship was sometimes straightforward and simple, at other times it could be quite complex.

A meeting that included Conant decided Groves should be answerable to a small committee called the Military Policy Committee, chaired by Bush, with Conant as his alternate.

The GAC was enormously influential throughout the late 1940s, but the opposition of Oppenheimer and Conant to the development of the hydrogen bomb, only to be overridden by President Harry S. Truman in 1950, diminished its stature.

Amongst them was a sealed brown Manila envelope that Conant had given the archives in 1951, with instructions that it was to be opened by the President of Harvard in the 21st century.

The college had planned to undergo a $ 100 million renovation and expansion of the Marshall Conant Science Building ( 1964 ) ( 99, 700 ft² ), but the plans changed ; what was to be the new wing became the new science center, and most of the original science building was demolished.

" Ever since, I have seen the SAT as the friend of the little guy, just as James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard, said it would be when he urged the SAT upon the nation in the 1940s.

The other members were: James F. Byrnes, former US Senator and soon to be Secretary of State, as President Truman's personal representative ; Ralph A. Bard, Under Secretary of the Navy ; William L. Clayton, Assistant Secretary of State ; Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and president of the Carnegie Institution ; Karl T. Compton, Chief of the Office of Field Service in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; James B. Conant, Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and president of Harvard University ; and George L. Harrison, an assistant to Stimson and president of the New York Life Insurance Company.

These men, who would be known as the Beckett Land Company, consisted of Conant, Elijah Alford, Nathan Birchard, Gideon Bush, Dillingham Clark, Elisha Clark, Isaac Clark, Benjamin Higley, Aaron P. Jagger, Enos Kingsley, Jeremiah Lyman, Bill Messenger, Ebenezer Messenger, Benjamin C. Perkins, John Seely, and Alpheus Streator.

The term itself was coined by Gillespie later, after Conant combined sulphuric acid with fluorosulfuric acid, and found the solution to be several million times more acidic than sulfuric acid alone.

Born in New York City, New York, Conant appeared as " Benji " in the 1971 coming-of-age drama, Summer of ' 42 and the Class of ' 44, appearing in both with Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser as a trio of adolescent boys.

James Bryant Conant ( March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978 ) was a chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U. S. Ambassador to West Germany.

Graduating from Harvard with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1916, Conant served in the U. S. Army during World War I, working on the development of poison gases.

Following the United States declaration of war on Germany, Conant was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Sanitary Corps on September 22, 1917.

President Harry S. Truman, center, presents Conant, at right, with the Medal of Merit and Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster.

Furthermore, the British Government rebuff and vetoed attempts and proposals by U. S. Science Adviser Vannevar Bush and highly regarded U. S. government official James Bryant Conant in 1941 to strengthen cooperation between Great Britain and America.

Allister was formed in Chicago, Illinois under their original name Phineas Gage by high school ( James B. Conant H. S.

Caedmon was the first to work with integrated production teams and professional actors, while Nightingale Conant featured business and self-help authors reading their own works first on vinyl records and then on cassettes.

The park is bounded by the Elizabeth River and Conant Street.

Conant, his wife Elizabeth, Dillingham and Abigail Clark, and Alpheus and Anna Streator donated portions of their allotments near the center of the township for a village green, which was common practice for townships in the Connecticut Western Reserve.

They were married in the Appleton Chapel at Harvard on April 17, 1920, and had two sons, James Richards Conant, born in May 1923, and Theodore Richards Conant, born in July 1928.

In April 1951, Truman appointed Conant to the Science Advisory Committee.

In April 1951 Conant had been approached by the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, about replacing John J. McCloy as United States High Commissioner for Germany, but had declined.

Thomas Jefferson Conant ( December 13, 1802 – April 30, 1891 ), American Biblical scholar, was born at Brandon, Vermont.

* Martha Conant told her story of survival to her daughter-in-law, Brittany Conant, on " Storycorps " during NPR's Morning Edition of January 11, 2008.

In 2007, he won the Levi L. Conant Prize for his expository paper, " The Poincaré Dodecahedral Space and the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations " ( Notices of the AMS 2004 ), and in 2008 he gave the first Levi Conant Lecture at Conant's former employer, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

* Conant, Jennet The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington ( Simon and Schuster, 2008 )

* Conant, Jennet The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington ( Simon and Schuster, 2008 )

In 1871, Civil War veterans led by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church organized the NRA in New York, with General Burnside as President and George Wood Wingate as secretary.

Conant returned to the United States in February 1957, and moved to New York.

Conant died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891.

Dr. James B. Conant has earned a nationwide reputation as a moderate and unemotional school reformer.

Dr. Conant has come away shocked and angry.

Dr. Conant may underestimate the psychological importance of even token equality.

The villains of the piece are those who deny job opportunities to these youngsters, and Dr. Conant accuses employers and labor unions alike.

The reaffirmation of American faith in the comprehensive high school, as expressed in the Conant study, is another indication of the liveliness of the ideal of maximizing opportunity through the equalizing of educational opportunity.

Such academic statesmen as James B. Conant were consulted.

Works by J. C. Bach, Anton Craft, Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe Sammartini, Comenico Dragonetti and J. G. Janitsch were performed by seven instrumentalists including Anabel Brieff, flutist, Josef Marx, oboist, and Robert Conant, pianist and harpsichordist.

When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, made a coded phone call to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee.

Oliver Conant ( born November 15, 1955 ) is an American actor.

After a three decades or so hiatus from acting, Conant re-emerged on off and off-off Broadway stages in productions ranging from Gene Ruffini's dystopian Homeland, Anne Fizzard's back-stage comedy Good Opinions, and Tuvia Tenenbom's absurdist satire Kabbalah.

** James B. Conant, American chemist and headmaster of Harvard University ( b. 1893 )

* November 19 – Roger Conant Massachusetts governor, founder of Salem, Massachusetts ( b. 1592 )

Meeting at UC Berkeley concerning the planned 184-inch cyclotron ( seen on the blackboard ): Lawrence, Arthur Compton | A. Compton, Vannevar Bush | V. Bush, James Bryant Conant | J.

B. Conant, Karl Taylor Compton | K. Compton, and Alfred Lee Loomis | A. Loomis ( March 1940 )

At this time, the United States had just entered World War I, and Mulliken took a position at American University in Washington, D. C., making poison gas under James B. Conant.

With his brother William Conant Church he established The Army and Navy Journal in 1863, and Galaxy magazine in 1866.